Hey folks. 

Short version, FedEx fought me a lot harder and a lot longer than I expected, assignments piled up, multiple family visits, a birthday, and on and on. The [i]good[/i] news is that the post is done (a little shorter than I planned) and is going up right after I post this.

The bad news is, obviously, that it's late. And a lot of stuff went into that in the short term but in the long term it happened because I ran this first "episode" so to speak pretty poorly. Providing only two enemies centralized things in a way that if one person didn't post, someone else couldn't post. And if one or two people didn't post, I wasn't really sure how to move the fight along and preserve momentum without causing problems for myself and for all of you guys. On top of that some stuff that I had pushed back definitively pinning down because it didn't matter yet suddenly mattered [i]right[/i] when I was dealing with everyone else, too.

I've got a two-fold strategy to fix this moving forward. Firstly I'm holding myself to having a post done every week on a certain day (to be determined when I check when coursework is going to be due over the summer so they don't overlap) or at least a post explaining what [i]I'm[/i] waiting for before I make another one. I'll announce what day that's going to be, and I'm going to hold myself to it. The second part is decentralizing further storytelling a bit so it doesn't all fail if one or two posts don't materialize.

Lastly I would appreciate it if everybody who is still here and wants to stick around could sound off so I can do some planning. If you've dropped me by now I [i]totally[/i] understand and no hard feelings at all. I just need to know for my own planning. If it turns out that pretty much everyone has dropped, I'll check in with whoever's left about how we want to proceed.

Sorry again about the problems, and letting you all know I still fully plan to stick with this.